THE PRESIDENCY: Against Both Sides

Now we find ourselves promising aid
to Stalin and his militant Communist conspiracy against the whole
democratic ideals of the world. . . . We know also Hitler's hideous
record of brutality. . . . But I am talking of Stalin at this moment . . .

if we go further and join the war and we win, then we have won for
Stalin the grip of Communism on Russia, and more opportunity for it
to extend in the world.

. . . It makes the whole argument of our joining the war to bring the
four freedoms to mankind a...